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Washington is pressing Israel's prime minister to condemn settlers besieging Palestinian families in the West Bank village of Qusra. Benjamin Netanyahu has not commented.

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Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya travelled to Cairo on Sunday to meet Egypt's intelligence chief. US envoy Jared Kushner is due in Israel and Egypt next week.

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Israel's defence minister ordered the army on Friday to hand civilian law enforcement in the occupied West Bank to the police. Settlers have besieged Palestinian families in Qusra since Sunday.

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Jared Kushner is due in Israel next week to save the US-backed Gaza plan. Netanyahu rejected its Hamas disarmament terms on Sunday.

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Israeli soldiers moved Palestinian families out of their besieged homes in Qusra in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, but the settlers blockading them since Sunday stayed.

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An Israeli drone killed Gaza City's police chief, Colonel Jamal Abu Kamil, on Thursday, a day after Israel resumed air raids. A second strike killed one person in Khan Younis.

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Israel struck Gaza on Wednesday for the first time in over a week, killing one man. Its defence minister ruled out any pullback from Gaza, Lebanon or Syria.

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Settlers have kept two Palestinian families trapped in their homes in the West Bank village of Qusra since Sunday. Israeli troops sent to lift the siege pulled back on Wednesday without ending it.

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Thousands of Gaza patients still await medical evacuation, with transfers running three to four times a week, the WHO said on Tuesday. Russia's UN envoy called the US peace plan stalled.

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Palestine's UN envoy asked the Security Council on Tuesday to enforce international law in the occupied West Bank. A UN official said settlement expansion must be treated as an emergency.

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Netanyahu is sticking to his rejection of the US-backed 15-point Gaza roadmap, announced on Sunday, and rules out any withdrawal before Hamas disarms. Washington says the process continues.

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The Guardian reported on Monday that Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa compound has entered a new phase of confrontation, with Arab states and former Israeli officials warning that the long-standing arrangements at the site are being eroded. According to the newsletter, those critics accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of complicity.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the US-backed 15-point Gaza roadmap in a Sunday cabinet meeting, ruling out any withdrawal before Hamas disarms.

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The Israeli military has closed the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, citing repeated settler attacks. The measure was reported on Sunday, a day after settlers stormed a mosque near Hebron.

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Hamas said on Saturday it is ready for phase two of the US-backed Gaza plan and urged Washington to press Israel, which has not signed the roadmap.

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Residents near Bethlehem told Al Jazeera that Israeli settlers attack them daily as violence spreads across the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military said it would investigate footage showing a soldier striking a Palestinian, while Palestinian Christians say mounting hardship is driving their community to leave.

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Israeli troops pulled out of the Qalandiya refugee camp north of Jerusalem late on Thursday after a two-day assault that left 51 Palestinians injured and more than 60 detained, the Tehran Times reported, describing a camp-by-camp offensive in the West Bank. Daily Sabah reports that patients across the occupied West Bank are unable to obtain essential medicines as public health facilities deteriorate.

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Israeli forces continued their operation in the Qalandiya area near Jerusalem after an order to take over the Palestinian refugee camp, The National reported on Thursday. Al Jazeera reported on Friday that the raid injured 51 Palestinians and that Israeli forces arrested dozens, amid what it described as an uptick in military and settler violence in the West Bank.

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In a video posted on Tuesday night, Netanyahu said Israel never agreed to the US-backed draft on Hamas disarmament. He ruled out leaving Israeli positions in Gaza until Hamas is fully disarmed.

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Israeli forces launched a large-scale military operation in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, Al Jazeera reported. Jordan's foreign minister Ayman Safadi said Israeli actions are triggering escalation in the West Bank and Gaza, while Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met King Abdullah II in Amman and attended a ministerial meeting on Jerusalem.

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Israeli strikes killed 18 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday and two more on Monday, one of the deadliest stretches since the October ceasefire.

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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israeli troops will not pull back from their current positions in the Gaza Strip until Hamas is completely disarmed, Politika reported on Tuesday. The Economist describes disarmament as one of the sticking points in the Gaza deal.

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Thousands gathered in central Gaza on Tuesday for a mass funeral for 112 members of the Abu Shreia and al-Hassaina families, among them 40 children, killed in an Israeli attack in 2023. Their remains were recovered from the rubble of destroyed homes almost three years later.

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An Israeli air strike killed two Palestinians in a car in Gaza City on Monday evening, medics said. The truce's mediators, Türkiye, Egypt and Qatar, condemned Israel's ceasefire violations the same day.

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After its envoy met Prime Minister Netanyahu on Monday, the US-led Board of Peace said Israeli forces will leave Gaza only once Hamas has handed over all weapons. Israel refuses to pull back before disarmament, Hamas refuses to disarm before a pullback.

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Residents of the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, many of them US citizens, have seen a sharp rise in attacks by Israeli settlers, the Guardian reported on Monday. The increase followed visits by US ambassador Mike Huckabee to the nearby Israeli settlement of Shilo.

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Israeli air strikes hit Gaza for a second straight day on Sunday, with Palestinian tallies of the dead ranging from 8 to 18. Israel has still not publicly responded to the US roadmap for Hamas's disarmament.

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Gaza's civil defence says it has ended a two-week search in the Sabra district and recovered 112 bodies from destroyed houses. It reports 157 more people still missing at the same site.

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Gaza's civil defence says Israeli strikes killed at least eight people across the Strip on Sunday, days after Hamas accepted a US-brokered disarmament deal. Israel has not said publicly whether it accepts the terms.

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A Hamas representative says the Palestinian side has fulfilled everything required of it and that decisions on collecting weapons rest with Palestinians alone. The UAE on Saturday welcomed the disarmament agreement announced two days earlier.

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Israeli forces detained Palestinians, among them children, in raids in the West Bank, with settler violence, illegal outposts and frequent attacks reported across Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus, according to Al Jazeera. The Wall Street Journal reported that settlers have torched mosques and that villagers are guarding their homes.

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Hamas confirmed on Friday that it accepted a US-brokered plan to give up its weapons alongside a phased Israeli withdrawal. Both sides insist the other side must move first.

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Israeli forces attacked targets across Gaza and killed at least two Palestinians, one day after Hamas agreed to a draft peace deal, Al Jazeera reported. The Israeli military said it killed Kafina, whom it identified as a commander who took part in the 7 October attack and in the kidnapping of Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or.

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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his Board of Peace had reached an agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza, with Israeli forces withdrawing in phases as weapons are handed over. Hamas negotiator Ghazi Hamad said the movement will not disarm before Israel withdraws. An Israeli official told Reuters the terms do not meet Israel's demand for full demilitarisation first.

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Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least four people, among them two children, health officials said on Thursday. The attacks clouded renewed talks with Hamas on a US-backed ceasefire.

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The Israeli military struck a mosque in Gaza City, saying Hamas stored weapons inside; the Hamas-run media office rejected that account. On the same day Gaza's health ministry put the number of children orphaned since October 2023 at about 60,700 and the overall death toll at 73,335. In Rafah, preparations continue for a "humanitarian city" under the Trump-led Board of Peace, a project Palestinians in the enclave view very differently.

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Israeli forces seized land under Palestinian Authority administration in the occupied West Bank in order to connect two illegal Israeli settlements, according to an Israeli media report cited by Daily Sabah. The National reported that Israeli politicians have shown little appetite for curbing the settler rampage in the West Bank, while Italy and Saudi Arabia said they oppose Israeli annexation efforts there.

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Israeli jets destroyed the Al-Muttaqin Mosque in Gaza City on Tuesday, next to tents sheltering displaced Palestinians, killing at least one person and wounding more than twelve, according to Al Jazeera. Hours earlier, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Israeli television that Israel controls more than 60 percent of Gaza and intends to reach 70 percent. Both happened while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was preparing to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington.

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Hamas is ready to conclude negotiations on the second phase of the Gaza peace plan and views the road map presented by the Board of Peace and the mediators positively, provided Israel agrees, a television channel reported according to TASS. Israel released 60 Palestinian detainees, and Oxfam accused Israel of genocide while presenting a Palestinian-led reconstruction blueprint worth 71.4 billion dollars.

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A deadly settler attack outside Nablus, in Tal, set off what Al Jazeera describes as days of raids, arson, closures and mass arrests across the occupied West Bank. More than 550 former Israeli officials and generals wrote to President Donald Trump urging him to press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over settler violence, which they say endangers Israel's future.

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Israeli forces raided at least 20 towns and villages in the occupied West Bank as well as a United Nations facility, demolishing homes and making arrests, according to Tehran Times, while the Jerusalem Post reports nine people were detained after the Gilad Farm shooting, among them the suspected gunman's father, whom police did not accuse of involvement in the attack itself. Palestinian rescue workers cited by Le Monde and The National say a 28-year-old pregnant woman lost her unborn child after her ambulance was held for more than 30 minutes at a checkpoint near Nablus, an account the Israeli

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Israel has approved the deployment of an international stabilisation force in Gaza, a step that supporters describe as significant for rebuilding the territory and replacing Hamas rule, according to a Jerusalem Post analysis. Details of implementation and troop contributions are not set out in the reporting.

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Hamas held a leadership vote and the result was close, with turnout that Tehran Times describes as real and a process that followed the movement's own rules. The outlet examines the implications and priorities of the newly elected leader, who is not named in the available report.

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Israel's political-security cabinet on Sunday approved the entry of the Board of Peace's International Stabilization Force into parts of Gaza that lie outside Israeli military control. The initial contingent is reported at around 200 personnel from countries such as Morocco and Uganda, with Israel retaining a veto over which states may take part. The decision came a day before Prime Minister Netanyahu's departure for Washington, where he is due to meet President Trump on Tuesday.

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Palestinian officials said Israeli settlers set fire to and defaced two mosques in the northern occupied West Bank, as reported by Al Jazeera, Le Monde and Folha de S.Paulo. The attacks followed violence on Friday in a Palestinian village near Nablus in which four Palestinians and two Israelis were killed, and the Israeli army has warned of a wider escalation.

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Israeli forces have begun a large-scale military operation against a village in the occupied West Bank following a day of deadly violence, according to The National. Further details on casualties and the course of the raid were not given in the report.

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Israeli forces detained at least 70 Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Daily Sabah reported. Eight Palestinians were injured in a separate attack by Israeli settlers.

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A new report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification says acute malnutrition in Gaza has fallen since famine was declared in parts of the territory in August last year, helped by increased aid deliveries and reduced fighting after the October 2025 cease-fire. Still, about 1.2 million people — 59 percent of the population — were acutely food insecure between April and June. The IPC warns that shrinking funding and humanitarian access could push that figure above 1.4 million by the end of 2026.

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Authorities said four Palestinians and two Israelis were killed on Friday in a shooting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, one of the deadliest incidents in months, according to the New York Times and Folha de S.Paulo. Details remain unclear and officials have given differing accounts, while The National reports that houses have been set alight as tensions flare over the killings.

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UNESCO added the archaeological site of Sebastia in the northern West Bank to its List of World Heritage in Danger, Palestinian officials said on Friday according to Daily Sabah. The report gives no further detail on the reasons behind the decision.

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